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A generalized asynchronous computability theorem

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing 2014-05-21 v3 General Topology

Abstract

We consider the models of distributed computation defined as subsets of the runs of the iterated immediate snapshot model. Given a task TT and a model MM, we provide topological conditions for TT to be solvable in MM. When applied to the wait-free model, our conditions result in the celebrated Asynchronous Computability Theorem (ACT) of Herlihy and Shavit. To demonstrate the utility of our characterization, we consider a task that has been shown earlier to admit only a very complex tt-resilient solution. In contrast, our generalized computability theorem confirms its tt-resilient solvability in a straightforward manner.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1304.1220,
  title  = {A generalized asynchronous computability theorem},
  author = {Eli Gafni and Petr Kuznetsov and Ciprian Manolescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.1220},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

16 pages, 5 figures

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